I once worked for a shop whose owner hated to send guns back to the factory, so I got the "pleasure" of fixing (or trying to fix) a bunch of those cheap automatics. Mostly the problems were due to poor quality springs, but the general shoddiness of the work and poor quality of the other material made them a nightmare to work on. I guess on the law of averages, some must have worked OK, at least for a while, but I would never want to depend on one.

On the other hand, I have fired a fair number of Hi-Points and found them reliable and reasonably accurate, with (in those I fired) no problems.